Comic Book: Captain America: Steve Rogers (2012 series)

What This Book is About:In the wake of the Standoff! event, Steve Rogers has regained his powers as Captain America but with a twist: this Cap is a Hydra agent. This series leads up to the SECRET EMPIRE event.

Data Sheet:

May 2016 to Jul 2017

2012

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Characters most frequently found in this comic book:In order of appearances.

May 2016"(No title given)"Script: Nick Spencer1926: Out late at night, Sarah Rogers
is struck by her drunken husband Joseph in front of their young son
Steven; a well-dressed lady shows up, beats Joseph with some judo
moves and chases him off. The lady introduces herself as Elisa
Sinclair and takes Sarah and Steven under her wing.... [...]

June 2016"(No title given)"Script: Nick Spencer The Red Skull relates the latest
developments with Captain America, Hydra, and the Cosmic Cube:
Years earlier the Cosmic Cube had been
shattered in a fight between Cap and his archenemy. The broken pieces
were collected in a SHIELD lab. [...]

July 2016"(No title given)"Script: Nick Spencer1926: Sarah Rogers is a valued member
of the helpful Hydra community organization as they support the civic
good. Local leader Elisa Sinclair praises Sarah and shows she is
aware that Sarah''''s husband is still abusing her.... [...]

August 2016"(No title given)"Script: Nick SpencerPrologue: 1926: Sarah Rogers packs to
flee Brooklyn with her son Steven; caught by Elisa Sinclair and a couple
of Hydra agents, she has Steve hide under the bed, while Elisa comes
in to “chat”.... [...]

September 2016"(No title given)"Script: Nick SpencerPrologue: 1926: Hydra Agent Elisa
Sinclair takes the young Steven Rogers to a remote house where she
tells him of his destiny (while lying about the fate of his mother)
and encouraging him to stay strong through the coming ordeal. [...]

October 2016"(No title given)"Script: Nick SpencerPrologue: 1928: Young Steven Rogers has
been at the Hydra school for two years. Dr Fenhoff (the later Dr.
Faustus) writes a report calling him a disappointment and
recommending he be euthanized as he will never amount to anything.... [...]

November 2016"(No title given)"Script: Nick Spencer1935: After his talk with the Kraken
(last issue), young Steven Rogers has become a model student at the
Hydra school. Dr Fenhoff is favorably impressed and chooses Steve to
lead the orientation for new students. This makes a group of German
students jealous so they plot revenge.... [...]

January 2017"(No title given)"Script: Nick Spencer1940: at the Keep, the secret Hydra
school, Steve Rogers falls behind every other student in the physical
areas of the training but he never gives up. This leads the Kraken
and Dr Fenhoff (Faustus) to choose him for a particularly difficult
assignment.... [...]

January 2017"(No title given)"Script: Nick Spencer1940: Hydra agent Steve Rogers has been
assigned to assassinate Dr. Abraham Erskine; his first plan is to
enlist in the army but he keeps getting turned down because of his
health. His back-up plan is to become a dishwasher at the diner that
Erskine frequents. [...]

February 2017"(No title given)"Script: Nick Spencer1940s: Movie newsreels celebrate the
heroism of the super-soldier Captain America leading the fight
against Baron Zemo and the Nazi menace!
Today: Captain America presents Baron
Zemo to Dr Eric Solveig as their new partner in their scheme against
the Red Skull. [...]

March 2017"(No title given)"Script: Nick Spencer1944: Captain America, secretly working
for Hydra, discovers that Military Intelligence has learned that
Baron Zemo (Heinrich) is in London and they are setting a trap for
him; Cap rushes off to Greenwich Observatory to intervene. [...]

March 2017"(No title given)"Script: Nick Spencer1944: Captain America returns to
Brooklyn to confront Elisa Sinclair; she asks sweetly whether he has
come to kill her....
In the present, Sinclair, now revealed
as Madame Hydra, is out recruiting villains for her purposes. She
finds Hive alive and well in Egypt and offers him Violence.... [...]

April 2017"(No title given)"Script: Nick SpencerHydra-powered Captain America gloats
over his plans coming to fruition: unable to face the Red Skull with
his telepathic powers he got the Avengers Unity Squad to take the
Skull down for him, also surgically removing Charles Xavier''s brain
from the villain. [...]

April 2017"(No title given)"Script: Nick Spencer1945: Despondent over the failure of
Hydra to control the Nazis, Steve Rogers is brought by Elisa Sinclair
to The Keep, the Hydra training school he attended as a youth. [...]

May 2017"(No title given)"Script: Nick SpencerAt the request of the Hydra staff,
journalist Sally Floyd sits down to a televised interview with Steve
Rogers, Captain America turned Hydra Supreme. There is only one rule:
she is not to ask about the recent events in Las Vegas (the city was
bombed by Hydra in SECRET EMPIRE #1-2). [...]

June 2017"(No title given)"Script: Nick SpencerPrince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, broods
over recent events: With the United Nations delegates trapped in the
Darkforce Dimension, an interim team meets in Brussels to be
addressed by Steve Rogers, Captain America, and Supreme Leader of
Hydra. [...]

July 2017"(No title given)"Script: Nick SpencerAs Steve Rogers takes off his Captain
America outfit and dons his Hydra uniform, he muses on the events
that have brought him there. He thought he had counted the costs but
he misses Elisa Sinclair [apparently killed at the end of SECRET
EMPIRE #6] and without her he feels lost. [...]